Numerical study of reacting flow characteristics of a 2D twin cavity trapped vortex combustor

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 658-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. K. Ezhil Kumar ◽  
Debi Prasad Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Study ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Reacting Flow ◽  
Trapped Vortex

Numerical Study of Non-Reacting and Reacting Flow Characteristics in a Lean Direct Injection Combustor

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipanjay Dewanji ◽  
Arvind G. Rao ◽  
Mathieu Pourquie ◽  
Jos P. van Buijtenen
Keyword(s):  
Flow Field ◽  
Swirling Flow ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Reverse Flow ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Droplet Breakup ◽  
Reacting Flow ◽  
Lean Direct Injection ◽  
Wide Range

The Lean Direct Injection (LDI) combustion concept has been of active interest due to its potential for low emissions under a wide range of operational conditions. This might allow the LDI concept to become the next generation gas-turbine combustion scheme for aviation engines. Nevertheless, the underlying unsteady phenomena, which are responsible for low emissions, have not been widely investigated. This paper reports a numerical study on the characteristics of the non-reacting and reacting flow field in a single-element LDI combustor. The solution for the non-reacting flow captures the essential aerodynamic flow characteristics of the LDI combustor, such as the reverse flow regions and the complex swirling flow structures inside the swirlers and in the neighborhood of the combustion chamber inlet, with reasonable accuracy. A spray model is introduced to simulate the reacting flow field. The reaction of the spray greatly influences the gas-phase velocity distribution. The heat release effect due to combustion results in a significantly stronger and compact reverse flow zone as compared to that of the non-reacting case. The inflow spray is specified by the Kelvin-Helmholtz breakup model, which is implemented in the Reynolds-Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) code. The results show a strong influence of the high swirling flow field on liquid droplet breakup and flow mixing process, which in turn could explain the low-emission behavior of the LDI combustion concept.

Numerical Studies on Trapped-Vortex Concepts for Stable Combustion

1998 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. R. Katta ◽  
W. M. Roquemore
Keyword(s):  
Drag Coefficient ◽  
Reacting Flow ◽  
Flow Conditions ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Cold Flow ◽  
Flow Simulations ◽  
Numerical Studies ◽  
Dynamic Flows ◽  
Experimental Findings ◽  
Trapped Vortex

Spatially locked vortices in the cavities of a combustor aid in stabilizing the flames. On the other hand, these stationary vortices also restrict the entrainment of the main air into the cavity. For obtaining good performance characteristics in a trapped-vortex combustor, a sufficient amount of fuel and air must be injected directly into the cavity. This paper describes a numerical investigation performed to understand better the entrainment and residence-time characteristics of cavity flows for different cavity and spindle sizes. A third-order-accurate time-dependent Computational Fluid Dynamics with Chemistry (CFDC) code was used for simulating the dynamic flows associated with forebody-spindle-disk geometry. It was found from the nonreacting flow simulations that the drag coefficient decreases with cavity length and that an optimum size exists for achieving a minimum value. These observations support the earlier experimental findings of Little and Whipkey (1979). At the optimum disk location, the vortices inside the cavity and behind the disk are spatially locked. It was also found that for cavity sizes slightly larger than the optimum, even though the vortices are spatially locked, the drag coefficient increases significantly. Entrainment of the main flow was observed to be greater into the smaller-than-optimum cavities. The reacting-flow calculations indicate that the dynamic vortices developed inside the cavity with the injection of fuel and air do not shed, even though the cavity size was determined based on cold-flow conditions.

Numerical study of influence of casting speed on fluid flow characteristics in the four strand tundish

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kridsanapong Boonpen ◽  
Pruet Kowitwarangkul ◽  
Patiparn Ninpetch ◽  
Nadnapang Phophichit ◽  
Piyapat Chuchuay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Casting Speed ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Fluid Flow Characteristics

A NUMERICAL STUDY ON THE HEMODYNAMIC AND SHEAR STRESS OF DOUBLE ANEURYSM THROUGH S-SHAPED VESSEL

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (04) ◽  
pp. 1550033 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Halabian ◽  
Alireza Karimi ◽  
Borhan Beigzadeh ◽  
Mahdi Navidbakhsh
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Mechanical Behavior ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Flow Simulation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sweep Angle ◽  
Abdominal Aortic ◽  
Hemodynamic Characteristics ◽  
Refined Meshes

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a degenerative disease defined as the abnormal ballooning of the abdominal aorta (AA) wall which is usually caused by atherosclerosis. The aneurysm grows larger and eventually ruptures if it is not diagnosed and treated. Aneurysms occur mostly in the aorta, the main artery of the chest and abdomen. The aorta carries blood flow from the heart to all parts of the body, including the vital organs, the legs, and feet. The objective of the present study is to investigate the combined effects of aneurysm and curvature on flow characteristics in S-shaped bends with sweep angle of 90° at Reynolds number of 900. The fluid mechanics of blood flow in a curved artery with abnormal aortic is studied through a mathematical analysis and employing Cosmos flow simulation. Blood is modeled as an incompressible non-Newtonian fluid and the flow is assumed to be steady and laminar. Hemodynamic characteristics are analyzed. Grid independence is tested on three successively refined meshes. It is observed that the abrupt expansion induced by AAA results in an immensely disturbed regime. The results may have implications not only for understanding the mechanical behavior of the blood flow inside an aneurysm artery but also for investigating the mechanical behavior of the blood flow in different arterial diseases, such as atherosclerosis.

A Numerical Study of the Flow Characteristics and Separation Efficiency of a Hydrocyclone

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 4272-4281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ik-Tae Im ◽  
Gyu Dong Gwak ◽  
Se Min Kim ◽  
Young Ki Park
Keyword(s):  
Separation Efficiency ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Flow Characteristics

scholarly journals Numerical Study of Heat Transfer Intensification in a Circular Tube Using a Thin, Radiation-Absorbing Insert. Part 1: Thermo-Hydraulic Characteristics

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (15) ◽  
pp. 4596
Author(s):  
Piotr Bogusław Jasiński
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Resistance ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Cylindrical Tube ◽  
Radiation Absorption ◽  
Fluid Temperature ◽  
Gas Temperature ◽  
Insert Size ◽  
Channel Diameter

The presented paper, which is the first of two parts, shows the results of numerical investigations of a heat exchanger channel in the form of a cylindrical tube with a thin insert. The insert, placed concentrically in the pipe, uses the phenomenon of thermal radiation absorption to intensify the heat transfer between the pipe wall and the gas. Eight geometric configurations of the insert size were numerically investigated using CFD software, varying its diameter from 20% to 90% of the pipe diameter and obtaining the thermal-flow characteristics for each case. The tests were conducted for a range of numbers Re = 5000–100,000 and a constant temperature difference between the channel wall and the average gas temperature of ∆T = 100 °C. The results show that the highest increase in the Nu number was observed for the inserts with diameters of 0.3 and 0.4 of the channel diameter, while the highest flow resistance was noted for the inserts with diameters of 0.6–0.7 of the channel diameter. The f/fs(Re) and Nu/Nus(Re) ratios are shown on graphs indicating how much the flow resistance and heat transfer increased compared to the pipe without an insert. Two methods of calculating the Nu number are also presented and analysed. In the first one, the average fluid temperature of the entire pipe volume was used to calculate the Nu number, and in the second, only the average fluid temperature of the annular portion formed by the insert was used. The second one gives much larger Nu/Nus ratio values, reaching up to 8–9 for small Re numbers.

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